Out of the Furnace

The seedy underbelly of society is exposed in this gritty, extremely dark, violent, well-acted, 116-minute film that focuses on two brothers, a responsible Pennsylvania mill worker (Christian Bale) who loses his girlfriend (Zoe Saldana) to the police chief (Forest Whitaker) when he is sent to prison for vehicular homicide while trying to watch out for his depressed, PTSD-afflicted, angry younger brother (Casey Affleck) who is trying to fit back into society after serving as a soldier in the Middle East and erasing a huge debt by foolishly and recklessly getting involved with a fight promoter (Willem Dafoe) who reluctantly sets him up with a ruthless, drug dealing boxing promoter (Woody Harrelson) who runs illegal, underground, bare-knuckled matches in the Appalachian Mountains.
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